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  • Healthy, Sustainable Homes for Toronto Community Housing Corporation Families
    Healthy, Sustainable Homes for Toronto Community Housing Corporation Families

    Transforming 840 Eglinton is the most ambitious retrofit project undertaken in Toronto Community Housing Corporation’s (TCHC) history. Not only will the updates will save the 40 families who call the building home $47,000 a year in collective utilities costs, they will result in a healthier and more comfortable spaces. Working from the outside in, the…

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  • BSN receives a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award
    BSN receives a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award

    BSN Architects is honoured to announce the Adaptive Reuse of the 1879 F.M. Woods Waterworks building has received a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. Established in 2007, the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards are annual juried awards administered by the Ontario Heritage Trust to recognize remarkable achievements in heritage conservations.  Thank you for…

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  • IN MEMORY, Barry W. Sampson
    IN MEMORY, Barry W. Sampson

    Dear Friends and Colleagues,  It is with great sadness I must share the news of Barry’s passing. The suddenness came as a surprise to his family and the office. He had been successfully battling cancer for a number of years but was recently diagnosed with a new strain which rapidly overtook him this weekend. Words cannot express…

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  • University of Toronto Laneway Housing Pilot
    University of Toronto Laneway Housing Pilot

    Baird Sampson Neuert architects designed three passive laneway housing projects just east of Huron Street on the University of Toronto St. George campus. Read more here from Gleaner News and here from Urban Toronto.

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  • BSN wins OAA Design Excellence Award
    BSN wins OAA Design Excellence Award

    BSN is pleased to announce that the Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building that our firm designed for the Schulich School of Business at York University has been awarded an OAA Design Excellence Award! We are proud to have been part of this important project. Press release details here.

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  • BSN wins 2020 Canadian Green Building award
    BSN wins 2020 Canadian Green Building award

    The team at BSN is excited to share the Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research Building, Schulich School of Business at York University is the winner of the 2020 Canadian Green Building Award for a large institutional building. Click here to read more about the award Click here to read about the Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate…

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